Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.

Broken people are so beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.

Welcome to the Family." - Mrs.Sterling

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.

They're still out there talking about gun control measures, as if somehow terrorists care about what our gun laws are.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.